On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 4:36 PM Chris Li <chrisl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Nhat,
>
> Very minor nitpick. This patch can fold with the later patch that uses
> it. That makes the review easier, no need to cross reference different
> patches. It will also make it harder to introduce API that nobody
> uses.
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 11:40 AM Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch implements a helper function that try to get a reference to
> > an memcg's css, as well as checking if it is online. This new function
> > is almost exactly the same as the existing mem_cgroup_tryget(), except
> > for the onlineness check. In the !CONFIG_MEMCG case, it always returns
> > true, analogous to mem_cgroup_tryget(). This is useful for e.g to the
> > new zswap writeback scheme, where we need to select the next online
> > memcg as a candidate for the global limit reclaim.
>
> Very minor nitpick. This patch can fold with the later patch that uses
> it. That makes the review easier, no need to cross reference different
> patches. It will also make it harder to introduce API that nobody
> uses.
I don't have a strong preference one way or the other :) Probably not
worth the churn tho.
>
> Chris
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 10 ++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > index 7bdcf3020d7a..2bd7d14ace78 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > @@ -821,6 +821,11 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_tryget(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > return !memcg || css_tryget(&memcg->css);
> > }
> >
> > +static inline bool mem_cgroup_tryget_online(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > +{
> > + return !memcg || css_tryget_online(&memcg->css);
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline void mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > {
> > if (memcg)
> > @@ -1349,6 +1354,11 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_tryget(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > return true;
> > }
> >
> > +static inline bool mem_cgroup_tryget_online(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > +{
> > + return true;
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline void mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > {
> > }
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >
